One for the Boomers
Mid-week. I head down an aisle in Walmart. There, I see what looks like R2-D2. You remember him from Star Wars, right? He’s the short, squatty one. I stand and stare. What am I seeing? A woman stops her cart next to the robot, which does not move an inch. I ask, “What do you think this is? What’s it doing?” “I don’t know,” she said. “Is it sweeping the floor?” Like other curious people, I eventually move past it toward the end of the aisle. I ignore the turkeys for 78 cents a